Lighthouse Project: Chapter Two

Sunshine and warm weather were always the driving factor. But not everyone who came to Southwest Florida was looking for fun in the sun. Some were looking to start a new life; others were on the lam. It was the first period of growth. Homes started popping up. So did trading posts and thatched-roof schoolhouses. And by the beginning of the 20th century, Naples was becoming a bona fide tourist town with a hotel and a pier to collect visitors. Naples — and much of Southwest Florida as we now know it — had been born.

Reproductions of photographs depicting early days of The Koreshan Unity. Picnic at the beach in early 1900's. Old Post Card.